In the afternoon, Beijing City finally resumed order under the Anmin notice and the urging of the Fuxing Army. All kinds of shops opened. However, except for the patrol soldiers, the surrendered patrol officers had only a small number of pedestrians who bowed their heads and walked quickly. According to the Qing Dynasty, the inner city was basically inhabited by the Manchu people. Although many of them were not imprisoned by the army like princes and ministers, they still understood that their identities would bring a catastrophe to themselves. If the nine gates of the inner city were guarded by the army, it would have been estimated that the more than 300,000 people would have escaped.

The inner city is strictly guarded, but the outer city is relaxed. Except for some important families who are ordered not to go out, the common people are completely free to move as long as they do not carry contraband. Various tricks of the political department have been staged since the morning. They want the people not to be afraid and not to escape. But since they live in the outer city, they are naturally the ones who have no money. As long as the new occupiers do not kill or set fire, they don’t want to leave Beijing at all, and they don’t have money to leave Beijing at all.

In the command center of the Zongren Mansion, Lei Yi Town is urging the troops to dig trenches outside Beijing City and replenish ammunition. The situation is not as simple as before. Beiyang No. 1, 2, and 27th No. 2 of the New Army. These three towns are the previously estimated enemies, but near Chengde, there is another army that was previously ignored, that is, Yi Army.

This army has a long history, and its soldiers were basically old soldiers of the Huai Army. After the Boxer Emperor, there were forty infantry battalions, two artillery battalions and three cavalry battalions. In 2003, eight battalions were transferred to Nanjing and expanded into 35 battalions of the Jiangfang Army. In history, Zhang Xun fought to the death with this army and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition forces. However, now, because the commander Liu Guangcai has not resigned due to illness, Zhang Xun has not taken over, and the situation in the country suddenly changed, the commander Liu Guangcai was hesitant to wait and see. He did not cross the river to occupy Nanjing.

The Jiang Defense Army was temporarily stabilized, but the Yi army with more than 20,000 people came to the capital under Jiang Guitu's urgent order. The Yi army was not scary, but more than 20,000 people in the north would inevitably hold the second army of our side, with only three divisions and six brigades. Each soldier was extremely precious. Although we can still see troops patrolling the streets now, in a few days, the only ones that can be seen on the streets are probably those patrolmen who surrender anyway.

"Why did Yi Jun receive the news from the capital so soon?" Because he had been in a stalemate with the ministerial regiment, Xie Zhangtai was the most idle person in the entire command center, and he also listened to the meeting on the army.

"We only cut off the telegram line from Beijing to Miyun. The telegram line from Miyun to Chengde was not cut off. It should be that the Qing army rushed to Miyun overnight, and then Miyun sent another telegram to Chengde." Chief of Staff Xu Dachun said. "We were still careless, just thinking about the telegram, but not expecting that the fast horse at the post station was still useful."

"Nothing careless. There was such a big noise last night. Even without fast horses, the sound of gunfire could travel dozens of miles. Fortunately, Chengde had more than 200 kilometers here, and even if it was marching urgently, it would take five days to marches. With rest, it would take at least six days to fight. Six days were enough for us to prepare." Lei Yizhen focused on this farthest Yi army, but he didn't care about their arrival. "The South Manchuria Railway was Japanese, and the railways inside and outside the pass have now been taken over by foreign troops. It is not only impossible to transfer troops from the Northeast to the pass, but it is possible and impossible to transfer. Now the situation depends on the political department, how many patrols and soldiers of the Imperial Guard can be mobilized there anyway. We can expand the number of troops."

"The Imperial Guards, Patrols, Guardians, Guardians, etc., only more than 28,000 people were captured. All the others took off their clothes and threw away their guns and hid at home. In order not to cause panic, we have not yet arrested the fleeing Qing troops. Most of the more than 28,000 people were the Imperial Guards outside the city. Only thousands of Guardians and a small number of patrol police were captured in the city. Half of these people were Manchu, and it was difficult to do political work." Fan An introduced the situation of the prisoners. He thought that more than 60,000 defenders could capture 50,000, but who knew that the 60,000 defenders were just a book number, and only half of them could actually hold guns. And the half of the guns were not brave enough. Before he captured the city gate, he ran home.

"Captains, regardless of Manchu and Han, should be incorporated into the army as long as they are qualified soldiers." Xu Dachun said. "Putting out the deadly hard elements, at least 20,000 people can be cleared out, right?"

"There are no deadly elements. If the officers are removed, all the soldiers will be added to the army. We should keep our own soldiers at the new arrivals. I don't believe that these people can turn against the sky!" Li Liezu, commander of the 3rd Division, said. "Don't those mankind have families here? Those who refuse to work hard will be killed. There is another thing. Except for those who go to Zhangjiakou, Beijing has several other roads controlled by the Qing army. I think the food will be rationed immediately. Once Beijing is surrounded, I don't know when it will be able to rescue the siege, and I'm afraid there will be insufficient food."

"I don't think you're worried about this! Most of the people in Beijing are mankind, and there are many princes and nobles. The troops besieged in the city dare not cut off the food in the capital. The first one to starve to death is the thousands of yellow belts and red belts. If they are hungry, they will starve 400,000 people to death. As long as they die, half of the food saved will be enough for us to go north to Yanzhou." Zhang Changguo, commander of the 4th Division, said with a smile. "With these 400,000 people in hand, I think Zhirui, the governor of Zhili, can provide free food for now. If he cuts off his food for one day, then the people will be hungry for one day. If he doesn't care about foreigners, we can also ask him to send guns and ammunition, one gun will be replaced with one per day, and a fixed number is given to him every day. If the gun is not sent, then he will give him a head full of people. Four hundred thousand heads can be exchanged for at least 400,000 guns. There is also the city guarding. If you don't pay attention, these people are very useful..."

Zhang Changguo was about to say something, but Lei Yizhen waved his hand and stopped him. According to previous wars, there were 400,000 people in his hands, and they were strung together to reach the outskirts. The Qing army would not dare to fire guns, but they would not dare to fire guns. This way, even if they were guarding the city for ten years, it would be foolproof. However, Lei Yizhen felt that he was a soldier, not a butcher. He just wanted to fight with the last troops of the Qing Dynasty. If he won, would he lose?

The temporary pre-war meeting did not have much trouble. The morale of the 2nd Army was strong in Beijing. In the morning, the situation across the country was also reported to the soldiers. Seeing that most provinces in the country were occupied by their own sides, all the soldiers felt that they must be founding heroes. Even if there were over 100,000 people in the Qing Dynasty, they were not afraid.

The Beijing Revival Army was discussing, while the Tianjin Zhili Governor General Yamen Zhirui and others were also discussing.

Last night, Zhirui was awakened by the British consul. When he heard about the rebellion in Beijing, he began to think that it was the British who were joking, but seeing that the British were talking very seriously, and the military camps of various countries were driving in full swing, he believed that something big happened in Beijing. He hurriedly dispatched troops to rescue him. He found that the telegrams from all over the Tianjin-Shanhaiguan Railway were blocked, and the railways inside and outside the pass also reported that many bridges on the Tianjin-Shanhaiguan Railway were bombed, which made him calm down.

When it was almost dawn, the British sent people to correct the previous news, saying that Beijing had been occupied by the revolutionary army and they had tens of thousands of troops. He heard that there were tens of thousands of revolutionary troops in Beijing, and Zhirui, who was about to organize patrol police to enter Beijing, stopped again. He wanted to wait for Ma Longbiao, the commander of the second town nearest to Tianjin, to come to Tianjin for consultation. The telegram was blocked in the middle of the night, so he sent a quick horse to report the message.

Ma Longbiao is quite old. After receiving the letter in the morning, he quickly went to Tianjin. Although the Ma Xin Post Road, which is 120 miles away, has been repaired several times, the six-hour trip still exhausted Ma Longbiao. When he met Zhirui, Ma Longbiao said anxiously: "General, why did the capital change? The imperial guards of those towns..."

"Brother Jinmen. The capital was not a mutiny, the capital was attacked by the revolutionary party at night." Zhirui corrected his previous mistake. After the telegrams in the pass were clear, he received a lot of news, but he did not dare to tell Ma Longbiao all of these situations, so he could only choose what he could say. "Now the capital has been occupied by the revolutionary party, and the emperor is still alive and dead..."

Zhirui burst into tears when he talked about Guangxu's life and death. Ma Longbiao next to him couldn't sit still at all, and said loudly: "General, the second town will be close to Tianjin tomorrow. If the train can be connected, he will enter the capital the next day, wipe out the revolutionary party, rescue the emperor and all the princes, and protect our Qing Dynasty for thousands of years!"

"Okay! It's really a slander to see the loyal minister!" Zhirui looked at Ma Longbiao's appearance of fighting the revolutionary party to the death, and his heart was suddenly relieved. The towns in Beiyang all had the shadow of Yuan Shikai, and he was afraid that he could not command this army. "Jinmen, the capital is now occupied, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 revolutionary troops inside. Your troops can capture Langfang in the future. When the first town and the 27th town arrive, our army can enter the capital to serve the king." Thinking of the broken railway, Zhirui sighed, "It will take them five or six days to arrive."

"What!" Ma Longbiao was shocked by the fact that there were tens of thousands of revolutionary parties in Beijing, and it would take five or six days to say, "General, if you continue like this, you will have to have a long night and dream. Once the relevant revolutionary parties in Yanzhou and Yizhou are in line with Beijing, the situation will be reversed!"

"Jinmen, the railway from Tianjin to Yuguan was blown up by the revolutionary party. In just a few days, the railway from Baoding to Beijing was also blown up by the revolutionary party. Once these two railways were broken, the first town and the 27th town were broken down, so your troops could not reach here for five or six days, so your troops could only drive to Langfang, and you can't move forward there. Don't worry about Yanzhou, Yizhou and other revolutionary parties outside the border. Foreigners have already known us, and the revolutionary army outside the pass will not let them enter the pass. If the railway inside the pass wants to go north, the railway will not transport troops. If they want to force the transport troops, now the front carriages are transferred to Tianjin, and the revolutionary party will only have no cars available. This time, foreigners are standing on our side." Zhirui introduced the situation, afraid that Ma Longbiao would be scared by the revolutionary party, so he had to carry the foreigners out.

I heard that foreigners were standing on the side of the Qing Dynasty, and Ma Longbiao felt very calm. In my Qing Dynasty, the Emperor was the sun, and the foreigners were the sky. I am not afraid of the sun. As long as the sky is still there, there is nothing to worry about.

Zhirui sent Ma Longbiao, who was relieved, to rest, but he sat in the room and became worried. The news he received in the afternoon was that most parts of the country were occupied by the revolutionary party. The news about Rehe Mongolia outside the pass was unknown, but the only eighteen provinces in the pass were Zhili, Henan, Shandong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi were still not captured by the revolutionary party. However, in these few provinces, there were only Zhejiang, Shandong and Zhili, which had heavy troops. Henan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi, are probably occupied by the revolutionary party tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

But no matter how much the Han people lost their way inside the pass, they were not as shocked as the Northeast was occupied by the Revolutionary Party. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, they had arranged a way out for themselves, but the Han people were forbidden to reclaim the Han people, and Fengtian also kept six ministries, just to prepare for the Han people to rebel in the pass, and the Manchus would retreat outside the pass. However, the ban on reclaims for more than two hundred years caused Japan and Russia. After the war in the past few years, in order to preserve the Longxing land, the court also accelerated the pace of immigration. But who would have thought that the Revolutionary Party would occupy it after the protection.

"Sir, Japanese Consul Kazusao Koike is looking for an interview." As Zhirui pondered, someone outside suddenly came to report.

"Koike Zhang Zao?!" Zhirui was a little surprised. He was originally from the British, but now he was a Japanese, and his heart suddenly became hanged. "Please please! Please!" he said quickly.

Japanese Consul in Tianjin, Zhang Zao Koike, is a mainlandist, and knows that Japan's future lies in China. Now that China is in its rebellion, if you don't take this opportunity to bite a piece of meat from China, you will really sorry to Amaterasu. As soon as the news of the Beijing rebellion arrived in the middle of the night, he couldn't sleep and was thinking about what would happen to Manchuria, but the news of Manchuria was not transmitted by the navy until noon: the situation has reached the worst, Fengtian Prefecture City and Liaoyang.

The land was occupied by Zhang Rong's troops last night. The Fuxing Army in Tonghua also encircled and annihilated the 6th and 7th towns of the Manchu and Mongolian New Army before dawn, the remaining 5th town of Rehe and 8th town of Heilongjiang. It is said that the entire Manchuria still belongs to the Qing army series, the only three patrol battalions on the left side of Fenglin Pavilion, the Zhang Zuolin team on the front side, and the Wu Junsheng on the back side. These soldiers have less than one division in total, what can they do?

It is best for Manchuria to go on its own, but without excuses. The best way is to go on the Qing army first, and wait for their fierce battle to make the Manchuria chaotic. That is when the Japanese army came on the field in a maintenance order. With this idea, Koike Zhangzao discussed with Ijiyuan Yoshikiki in Beijing for an afternoon before he came to the Governor's Office in Zhili in a dark way.

Before becoming the consul of Tianjin, Zhang Zao was the consul general in Fengtian. In the past few years, Zhirui was the governor of the three northeastern provinces. When they were in the northeast, they had many frictions, but the relationship between the two eased when they arrived in Tianjin. After many years of acquaintance, the two were not polite. Before Zhirui asked about his purpose, Xiaochi Zhang Zao said: "Governor, now the situation in your country is uncertain and the capital is occupied by the rebellion. He really needs a hero who makes a big decision to stand up and turn the tide. Xiaochi has always believed that the adults are the heroes of China and is willing to help them restore the situation."

When the Japanese said "big decision", Zhirui's heart was just a thunderous beating, but he was calm and stood up and bowed to Xiaochi Zhang after he finished speaking, saying, "It's really a matter of hardship. I would like to express my deep gratitude to you and the emperor of your country! As long as he can regain the capital and save the emperor this time, he will definitely send the prince to your country to thank you."

Guangxu had already confirmed his death, and Zhirui did not admit it. Xiaochi Zhangzao was not easy to explain, but seeing that he was just thinking about regaining the capital, he said, "Governor General, there is now turmoil in the entire country, and even Manchuria has been occupied by the Fuxing Association. What the adults have to do is not only to regain the capital, but Manchuria is the place where the royal family live and the Longxing, and it is also to be recaptured. Now the elite soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are all in Yanzhou, Zhejiang. It is heard that the Fuxing Association has mobilized 30,000 to 40,000 troops from overseas to the south from Shanghai, preparing to encircle and suppress the new army in Yanzhou with the Fuxing Army in Yanzhou... Fortunately, their arms ships were blocked by the customs, and the war there will not begin for a while."

After all, there was news about the ministerial regiment, and he knew much more about the situation in the country than Zhirui. As soon as he said that the overseas team of the Revival Society was preparing to encircle and suppress the Yanzhou revolutionary army, Zhirui couldn't help but stand up, and then when he heard that the arms ship was intercepted by the customs, he sat down again.

Seeing that Zhirui's mood had been mobilized by himself, Xiaochi Zhangzao continued, "Sir, more than 100,000 troops are scattered around Yanzhou, but there are not enough soldiers in Beijing. The way to truly change the current situation is to transfer the elite soldiers of Yanzhou to Beijing and Manchuria. Only by consolidating these two places can there be hope for quelling the rebellion across the country."

"Transfer troops?!" Zhirui thought about the current situation. This was indeed the only way to solve the current predicament. "Mr. Consul, there are more than 100,000 new troops in Yanzhou. How can we transfer them to the north?"

"Sir, the troops in the west and north of Yanzhou can be retreated to the coast of the Yangtze River, while the troops in the south and east of Yanzhou can be retreated to the beach. In this way, soldiers can take a boat north to get ashore in Manchuria. It only takes five days to prepare the boat, and it takes five days to transport it to the north. In other words, ten days later, the first batch of troops can reach the north, and at most one month, they can all leave Zhejiang." Xiaochi took out the map he brought and gestured the withdrawal route. It can be seen that he was prepared.

"Mr. Consul, there are more than 100,000 people, do you have so many fleets?" Zhirui also knew that the navy was still in his hands, but did he have a ship?

"My Nising steamship has more than 20 steamships, which can transport one division's troops to the north at a time. There are more steamships from Swire and Jardines in the UK, and there are many steamships in your country. The merchant ships of these companies are all concentrated and can transport at least five divisions to the north at a time. Governor General, as long as there are five divisions, are you still worried that Beijing and Manzhou cannot be recovered?" Xiaochi Zhang Zao smiled. "Now countries do not recognize that Revival will be a warring group. Taking this opportunity, you should immediately hire merchant fleets of various countries on the Yangtze River and coastal areas to change the current situation."

Xiaochi Zhang Zao's words were written in a thousand words. After hearing this, Zhirui kept striking the house. He was worried about two problems now. One is that countries are not neutral outside the country and are completely on the side of the Qing Dynasty. But when will they be neutral outside the country? Then, if more than 100,000 troops are transferred to the north, the freight is affordable for Zhili, but the money and grain that supports these troops' combat is afraid that Zhili Province will not be able to support this money and grain. Where can we raise the money and grain?

All the things that should be said have been said. Xiaochi Zhangzao just drank tea and waited for Zhirui's decision. The situation in the Qing Dynasty was like this, and Japan did not want to see the Revival Unify China than anyone else. Not to mention the grievances of the Russo-Japanese War, the organization and determination of the Revival Society could not be made bigger. Japan was strong and China was strong and Japan was weak. This was the most insistent belief of the mainlandists. Now Xiaochi said that he would transfer troops to the north, but according to the Beijing Protocol, Tianjin could not go ashore. All the troops transferred to the north were the most likely to land in Dalian and Jinzhou, Dalian or Jinzhou, all Manchuria. As long as these soldiers arrived in Manchuria, it would not be difficult to clear the Revival Army in South Manchuria. If the Qing army was not good, Japan could also send troops.

"Mr. Kochi, when will countries adopt a neutral attitude?" Zhirui asked the most worried question.

"Governor General, some countries have already wanted to strictly adhere to neutrality. Some countries will choose neutrality as long as they rejuvenate properly, but some countries cannot be completely neutral no matter what the rejuvenation promises." Koike Zhangzao could not clearly say that Britain and Japan would oppose rejuvenation to the end, so he had to say something false, "Maybe this is like a fate between people. Some people are happy to be friends with him even if they are not friendly to themselves; while some people are still not friends with themselves. Governor General, you should not consider the attitudes of various countries, but should do your best to save the current crisis."

Xiaochi's explanation only made Zhirui smile. He had been an official in Northeast China and Zhili for five years. He understood the thoughts of the great powers. They hoped that the Qing Dynasty would be intact and that the Qing Dynasty would progress. But if the Qing Dynasty really became like them, they would definitely tear off the friendship and defeat the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty will never be able to catch up with Japan, but if the Revival Society really had a foothold, with their ability to block hundreds of thousands of Qing troops alone in the valley, they might really catch up with Japan and become the overlord of Asia.

They were friends with the Qing Dynasty because the Qing Dynasty would always be a third-rate country. Zhirui smiled bitterly at this, but he had already made a decision in his heart. He did not expose Xiaochi's mask, but asked again: "Mr. Xiaochi, if I want to borrow from your country, how much money can your country provide?"

"Governor, it depends on what you can provide as collateral?" Kochi smiled more and more friendly, which he had guessed before he came.
Chapter completed!